BENJAMIN EISENSTADT Benjamin Eisenstadt, who turned Sweet ‘N Low into a pink-packeted sweetening staple, died Monday of complications from bypass surgery. He was 89. After World War II, Eisen… ...

Benjamin Eisenstadt was born in 1906 on New York's Lower East Side. After losing both parents early, he somehow managed to get himself an education and founded Cumberland Packing, the Brooklyn ...

Marvin Eisenstadt poses with a bus advertisement in front of Sweet’N Low’s Brooklyn offices, circa 1960. Photo via Sweet’N Low. Advertisements started appearing locally on city buses, and for decades ...

Benjamin Eisenstadt, who set Americans to shaking their sugar before sweetening their coffee, has died at age 89. Mr. Eisenstadt, who rediscovered saccharin and shook up the sweetener industry as ...

Benjamin Eisenstadt’s story of founding Sweet’N Low has become the stuff of business folklore. After starting with a company that filled teabags, he had an idea: ...

Rich Cohen’s grandfather invented Sweet’N Low and made hundreds of millions of dollars selling little pink packets filled with saccharine. From this great fortune, Cohen received zilch. He ...

Two weeks ago, company CEO Steven Eisenstadt, Benjamin’s grandson, convened a meeting of his 320 unionized employees and made the surprise announcement that he plans to shut down manufacturing ...

The familiar pink packet has become emblematic of America's diet obsession. Sweet'N Low, the low-cal sugar substitute, was invented by Brooklynite Benjamin Eisenstadt, who also created sugar ...

Benjamin Eisenstadt’s obituary in The New York Times called him “a sweetener of lives,” for he invented not only the individual sugar packet but also the zero-calorie cash cow Sweet’N Low ...

William T. Lesio Webster - March 24, 2019. Bill is predeceased by his siblings, Ralph, Donald, Edward & Amelia Lesio; daughter-in-law, Helen Lesio.

NEW YORK (AP) — For almost 60 years, tiny pink packets of Sweet'N Low have flowed, millions upon millions, from Cumberland Packing Corp., the Brooklyn company where the sugar substitute ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For almost 60 years, tiny pink packets of Sweet’N Low have flowed, millions upon millions, from Cumberland Packing Corp., the Brooklyn company where the sugar substitute … ...